by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)
Ritterliche Werbung
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
"Wo gehst du hin, du schönes Kind?" "Zu melken, Herr!" -sprach Gotelind. "Wer ist dein Vater, du schönes Kind?" "Der Müller im Tal!" -sprach Gotelind. "Wie, wenn ich dich freite, schönes Kind?" "Zu viel der Ehre!" -sprach Gotelind. "Was hast du zur Mitgift, schönes Kind?" "Herr, mein Gesichte!" -sprach Gotelind. "So kann ich dich nicht wohl frein, mein Kind." "Wer hat's Euch geheißen?" -sprach Gotelind
Authorship:
- by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 1 no. 11 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835 - 1913), "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 81 (Vier Gesänge) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 42 (Zehn Lieder) no. 3 (1904) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Manfred Schlenker (1926 - 2023 ), "Ritterliche Werbung", published 2006 [ vocal quintet ], from Zehn Mörike-Burlesken für fünf Stimmen, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 62 no. 11 (1948-9) [ voice and piano ], from Das holde Bescheiden: Lieder und Gesänge nach Gedichten von Eduard Mörike, no. 11, Wien: Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wolfgang Ulrich (1924 - 1995), "Ritterliche Werbung", 1984 [ duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Ritterliche Werbung", op. 41 no. 7, published 1906, from Frühlings- und Liebeslieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Charles James Pearson) , "Chivalrous Courting", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Charles James Pearson
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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